>>> "Peter" <600cell@...> 5/19/2009 9:12 AM >>>

This message came to my address. Did you mean to write to the group? There
might be others there who can say more, but in answer: yes, notably
Christianity (from English and continental missionaries) and the Anglo-Saxon
version of the Roman alphabet. Literary influences have been detected in
early poetry, Völundarkviða and eslewhere, although a lot of this is
speculative. Some have suggested that Egill got the idea for end-rhyme in
England. There was an article in a recent edition of Saga-Book (journal of
the Viking Society) about Old Norse poetry in the British Isles. Several
loanwords from English relate to religion, e.g. biskup "bishop", djákni
"deacon", kirkja "church", engill "angel", guðspjall "gospel", þolinmoeði
"patience" (Stefán Karlsson: The Icelandic Language 2004, § 1.4.1), although
others were taken from Old Saxon. In the 13th century, Brother Robert who
may have been from England created Old Norse versions of French stories for
King Hákon IV of Norway, most famously Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar (The Saga
of Tristram and Iseult). The First Grammarian, anonymous author of the First
Grammatical Treatise, talks of the close connection between English and Old
Norse.


-----Original Message-----
From: Schuyler Himberg [mailto:SchuylerHimberg@...]
Sent: 19 May 2009 12:37
To: llama_nom
Subject: [norse_course] Re:

did the norse specifically adopt anything from the english?
like culture or parts of the language